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Pascal Battus / Michel Doneda: Miracle
ByDespite such connections, Battus and Doneda only performed together as a duo for the first time in December 2016; after that they played together a couple of times before this recording was made in July 2020. While Battus has history as a guitarist, here he is again credited with "rotating surfaces"; apparently, these are generally mechanisms from old Walkmans (remember those?) which are made up of small plates put in motion by electric motors, on which vibrators and resonators (sheets of paper, plastic, metal, wood styrofoam et cetera) come to react. Doneda has undergone no major changes to what and how he plays; his instruments are the straight soprano saxophone and its smaller cousin the sopranino saxophone; he is totally committed to improvisation. Across five tracks, ranging in length from six-and-a-half to over thirteen minutes, a total of fifty-one minutes, Battus and Doneda sound as if they have played together for far longer than five years; the sounds they make fit together well, combining into an integrated soundscape which feels like one entity rather than different sounds juxtaposedas good a combination of instruments with electronic sounds as we are likely to hear.
As a listening experience, the album richly rewards the time invested in it and reveals ever more with repeated listening. It is in complete contrast to the compositions heard on Sillons -Reflets, which demonstrates the breadth and variety of the Potlatch catalogue.
Track Listing
Miracle en pointillé; En dérive; Imprononçable; Natte; Herméneutique.
Personnel
Pascal Battus
electronicsMichel Doneda
saxophone, sopranoAdditional Instrumentation
Pascal Battus: rotating surfaces. Michel Doneda: sopranino saxophone.
Album information
Title: Miracle | Year Released: 2021 | Record Label: Potlatch Records
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